small business administration

Thanks to a stop-gap funding measure passed in the final week of January, the U.S. government is, for the time being, fully operational. More precisely, the U.S. government is operating to the best of its ability under a five-week backlog of  work, as well as the threat of another shutdown...

If you're a venture capitalist, your office is typically swarmed on a daily basis with startup founders of archetypal fashion: college students and recent grads in their “signature Mark Zuckerberg hoodie attire” who inhabit the local Silicon Valley coffee house and claim to have...

The recent Chapter 11 filings of two national restaurant chains, Sbarro and Quiznos, are drawing new focus on the opportunities and challenges faced by franchises. U.S. Census Bureau data from 2007 showed franchise businesses employed over 58 million U.S. residents, while bringing in revenues,...